RUMOR: Nintendo Switch 2 leaked factory images/specs/renders

[Chrkeller]

sc94597 said:

Chrkeller said:

I think 90 to 120 gb/s is a good spot, I don't have a problem with the rumored choices.  I just see a lot people, not just on VG, commenting that the S2 is going to have more ram than the Series S...  which might be true, but people are forgetting the ram is WAY slower.  And that is fine, mobile isn't going to compete with home.

While this is indeed true, VRAM throughput and VRAM capacity will affect different visual settings.

You can have situations where the Switch 2 might have lower internal resolutions and fewer, high-quality dynamic assets and features that need to be updated regularly (processing needs to happen often) but better texture quality and more, high-quality static assets that don't update frequently (processing happens less regularly.) 

We've also seen the situation where capacity is an issue (an actual bottleneck that affects performance) much more frequently than throughput during this generation (largely because you can scale for throughput very easily these days.)  

The Series S is almost certainly going to remain the more powerful system, but if the Switch 2 indeed has more available memory than it (after accounting for system utilities like OS), then there will be particular settings and games where the Switch 2 has the potential to come ahead (even if it is weaker overall.) 

Sounds reasonable.  I am new to hardware and far from an expert.  I just know my 4070, at 12 gb, smokes the base ps5, despite the ps5 being 16 gb.  Thus, there has to be more to it than just how much vram.  

Either way, for a mobile device, the S2 is well positioned.

Edit

I always assumed my CPU helped smoke the ps5.  I suspect the CPU in the series s to be much better than the S2.